I tried to run Gemma 3 27B Q4K and was surprised how quickly the VRAM requirements blew up proportional to context window, especially compared to other models (all quantized) at similar size like Qwq 32B.

It’s the same with linux distros. One of the instances could get a critical mass of newbies but we will still have die-hards trying to gatekeep the entire fediverse.

Even Digg. I still remember the complaints about mrbabyman.

It’s like having a discord ‘server’. Nothing gets actually talked about, noteworthy stuffs are hidden beyond layers of clunky mobile UI and everyone’s phone numbers are leaked in the process.

Piggybacking on this, I tried Fitgirl repack releases and some of them hang up during install when executed through wine or proton. I resorted to installing them from a windows boot and then execute them from linux, but does anyone have a better solution?

Not sure if shadowbanning can work here. Wasting each instance’s limited pool of resources is not what we want to encourage.

Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.

Happy to be corrected. But I still wish they were used prominently as it used to be before.

They’ll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?

It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they’re just ‘Android 12’ etc. It really went corporate after that direction.

And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.

It will probably split and congregate around instances focusing on heavy moderation and KYC vs crypto-focused free-for-all ones if they ever gain traction.

I would absolutely use a VM with no internet connection for these, but then all bets are off if those softwares need direct access to GPU, for example. GPU passthrough is a thing, but I haven’t had much luck personally.

I’m worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

That’s when they “graciously” offer to whitelist “approved” devices to boot windows VM from.

Redlib and Libredirect are the only thing keeping me sane when I absolutely have to open Reddit.

Shit, I have desktops running with 2200G and 2400G.